Many words have a stem used with all suffixes distinct
from their unsuffixed form. The entries for such words contain
a dot (.) and a pipe (|).
All material before the pipe constitutes the unsuffixed form,
and the suffixed form is obtained from there by replacing the
material after the dot with the material after the pipe.
For instance puň.ei|n 'turnip' is
puňei unsuffixed,
puňn- suffixed;
du.|n 'mountain' is du, dun-.
The same device is used for phonemically invariant stems subject
to phonological processes:
məi.s|z 'father' is best thought of as
simply /məiz/.

The second column specifies the capital and caudal classes of each inflecting stem. In addition, if a vowel of the stem is subject
to a-mutation, it will be underlined in the first column and
the other form will appear in the second column, marked with
> if the citation form is unmutated and < if it is mutated.
So ij V:W >əi
'snow' is vocalic capital, consonantal weak caudal,
unmutated in citation form,
and forms əijka 'its snow', while
kaj Cs:W <o 'tongue'
is voiceless capital, consonantal weak caudal,
mutated in citation form, and forms
kojəi 'my tongue'.
(Mutation cannot change register, so if an underlined vowel
bears a register diacritic this isn't repeated, as a
notational convenience.)

Adjectives are glossed with English adjectives.
Separable p-verbs are indexed under their second part
and displayed with a hyphen; this hyphen is not used in
running romanised text.

This lexicon includes many derivations, including a certain number
which are regular. They're just here for comprehensiveness.
On the other hand not all derived words
(especially ta- inceptives and
tez- factitives) in use are included.

[[Among Ayāsthi borrowings there should be some that
are essentially synonyms or register variants.]]
[[Check for exceptional singulatives.]]